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This sample showcases the Azure Functions tooling for Visual Studio 2017. It has a website where customers submit reviews, stored in Azure storage blobs and CosmosDB; and an Azure Function for automated moderation of customer reviews using Microsoft Cognitive Services. It uses an Azure storage queue to decouple the website from the function.

This solution is a personal knowledge management system and it allows users to upload text, images, and audio into categories. Each of these types of data is managed by a dedicated microservice built on Azure serverless technologies including Azure Functions and Cognitive Services. The web front-end communicates with the microservices through a SignalR-to-Event Grid bridge, allowing for real-time reactive UI updates based on the microservice updates. Each microservice is built and deployed independently using VSTS’s build and release management system, and use a variety of Azure-native data storage technologies.